Even after they were ordered to enforce mask-wearing or else, some casinos continue to flout the rules. Clark County conducted 1,600 inspections and found deficiencies at Silverton, an absence of social distancing at the Aria pool and no effort being made to even try to socially distance patrons at the Mandalay Bay pool. Over at Venelazzo, ice cream parlor Cocolini was discovered operating without a business permit (!), an extraordinary oversight for landlord Las Vegas Sands. A Grand Canal Shoppes outlet of Subway was flouting mask-wearing requirements, as were sundry other restaurants around town. It’s difficult to know what it’s going to take for business like these to get serious about Covid-19, short of people dropping dead in the streets, God forbid.
Slot route operators are not merely sulking at being shut down through July 24 by the state. They’re filing suit. After all, some of them derive 50% of their revenue from bar-top gambling, which is now nixed. (It’s not like people are coming for the food.) Huffed one marketing manager, “We see that casinos are still having the ability to be open and function and we feel we did everything we were asked to do and we’re trying to figure out why we’re being targeted.” To which Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) would reply, “We know that Covid-19 can easily spread when people are congregating for long periods of time, like inside a bar. In states where we have seen significant spikes, such as Arizona, Texas, and Florida, they have all taken actions to roll back bars.” Lax conduct at those casino pools and gyms has also put them in Sisolak’s cross-hairs.
